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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

This means shifting the way we work so we’re able to match the pace of change happening in the wider world. The origins of our agile network can be traced back to an online idea forum called WeSolve that we launched in 2014 as a way of challenging Bayer employees to contribute solutions to specific technical or commercial problems.

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A 5-Step Process for Reorganizing After a Merger

Harvard Business Review

But, according to McKinsey research , only 16% of merger reorgs fully deliver their objectives in the planned time, 41% take longer than expected, and in 10% of cases, the reorg actually harms the newly-formed organization. In this article we will show specifically how they apply to M&A-driven reorgs.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, mega-cities seem to be natural hotbeds for growth: as just one example, London , with around 10 million people, currently has a 50% greater incidence of high growth firms compared to other UK regions, and a quarter of the high growth firms in the nation overall. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth. strategic hires).

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business Review

The president made this goal even more formidable by promising that every American would have an electronic health record by 2014. There was, for example, no grants-management office even though we were expected to rapidly expend $3 billion in infrastructure grants and contracts to prepare the nation for meaningful use.

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Understanding the Game Being Played in Washington

Harvard Business Review

Peyton Young’s “ The Evolution of Conventions ,” one of several works of game theory I plowed my way through this week in an attempt to find a way to think about the government shutdown and looming debt ceiling fight that didn’t make me want to bang my head against a wall. That quote is from economist H. The debt-limit game.